First round of interviews finished

I have finished the first round of interviews, and have begun to sift through the transcripts and look for narrative plots, twists, characters, and meaning.  It's a daunting but exciting task, and I can't wait to get into it and see what I can produce.  It's my aim to return to the participants and show them the edited video of everyone- as an entire story of hosting- and ask them to comment not just on their own video'd stories, but the others' too, and integrate this second round into the original as a from of commentary and conversation.  I think this will provide people with the confidence of saying what is important to them within a one-on-one setting, rather than asking a group of people together, where you get the voice of the group rather than the individual.  Yet I'm hoping that reflections and ideas will be sparked by the individuals as they watch other people talk.  There are some great plots beginning to form; the changing experience of hosting, as it starts as a leisure based activity soon after immigration and moves to an obligation to keep in touch with people and maintain involvement in their lives as families change and children arrive etc.  There's also this idea of looking for similarity and difference at the same time- people look for things that are familiar to them in some way from back home- fruit picking for example, or the water front in another- and take their visitors to these places to show them- this is how we do this here.  Then people also seek difference, to validate the sacrifice that there visitors have shown in time and money- to show them something unique and special- China Town, camping, Muskoka, Kensington, even Hooters!  Have all been used to say 'this is how this place is different to our home'.  There's more, but that's a start.  I'll keep you updated as I go reach some milestones.